Plasticity for Structural Engineers

Dr. Wai-Fah Chen was Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii from 1999 to 2006. From 1976 to 1999, he was Head of the Department of Structural Engineering at Purdue University and George E. Goodwin Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering; prior to that he taught at Lehigh University. The author of more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and author or co-author of 20 books, his primary areas of research are constitutive modeling of engineering materials, soil and concrete plasticity, structural connections, and structural stability. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and an Honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

• refaceNotationPart I - FundamentalsChapter 1 - IntroductionChapter 2 - Yield and Failure CriteriaChapter 3 - Elastic Stress-Strain RelationsPart II - Plastic Stress-Strain RelationsChapter 4 - Stress-Strain Relations for Perfectly Plastic MaterialsChapter 5 - Stress-Strain Relations for Work-Hardening MaterialsPart III - Metal PlasticityChapter 6 - Implementation in MetalsPart IV - Concrete PlasticityChapter 7 - Implementation in ConcretesPart V - Limit AnalysisChapter 8 - General Theorems of Limit Analysis and Their ApplicationsChapter 9 - Limit Analysis of Engineering StructuresIndex

"One of the best books on the elastic and plastic behavior of structural elements under complex stress conditions." -M. Grujicic, Clemson University; "Professors Chen and Han are to be congratulated for their quite unique contribution... a treasure on the bookshelf of those who seriously commit themselves in the study of structural plasticity" -Applied Mechanics Reviews